Different species of Aquatic Ponies, part three · 5:03am Sep 7th, 2017
Hello again, Paradise here. Today, we're going to look at the culture of the freshwater sea ponies, and compare it to the culture of the oceangoing sea ponies. It is a very interesting society these ponies possess, and it bears some looking into.
Freshwater sea ponies have a music-based culture, greatly resembling 1960's soul music culture. All the communication between seaponies is sung instead of spoken. When talking to non-seaponies, they will use phrases like 'hip', 'funky', and 'groovy', and always sound very cheerful and happy. One phrase that non-seaponies hear extremely often is the famous "Shooby doo, shoop shooby doo.", a phrase with more than a hundred meanings, depending on the context. They don't communicate through words, but rather through melodies and harmonics in their words and singing. Freshwater sea ponies can have a whole conversation without any land ponies in hearing range understanding it.
The oceangoing ponies, while they sing just as often as land ponies, are not as musically oriented as their freshwater cousins. Their culture has very little difference from land ponies, and even reflects the fact their ancestors weren't regular ponies. Their culture is very insular, and makes the assumption that sea pony culture is automatically superior to land pony culture. Their society is extremely isolationist, and they assume a paternalistic attitude towards non-seaponies whenever they interact with them. Heck, oceangoing sea ponies used to make land ponies who visited them, take the form of sea ponies when they visit. The only thing that put an end to that was when the freshwater sea ponies destroying the magic pearl of transformation that first turned the ancestors of the seaponies into their current forms.
Freshwater sea ponies, on the other hand, get along with other species very well, including other aquatic races. Sea ponies are especially friendly with mermaids serving as companions and friends with merfolk, whenever these magnificent semi-humanoids decide to visit fresh water. And the mermaids serve as excellent guides and guardians whenever the freshwater sea ponies are forced to visit the deep waters, creating a perfect symbiosis for both of these oceangoing species. It's this kind of camaraderie with other species that allow freshwater to thrive wherever they live or visit.
Anyway, that's all for this time. Be sure to stop back when we explore the other two species of aquatic ponies. So until next time...
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